Privacy Tips
April 11, 2023
Everyone had a MySpace account a decade or so ago, and many users never deleted their old accounts when they left. But if your account was set to “public,” your information (pictures, connections, etc.) is still findable. With criminals using data from social media networks and other onlin…
April 11, 2023
If you’ve ever given your phone number to Facebook, anyone can find your profile by running a Facebook search on that number. And we mean anyone with a Facebook account—not just your friends. Security researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to exploit Facebook by connecting hundre…
April 11, 2023
You need to change your Facebook privacy settings. The reason why is simple. From injecting users’ purchases on third-party sites into the News Feed to the Cambridge Analytica incident and its facial recognition system, Facebook has had its fair share of privacy scandals. However, even thou…
January 13, 2023
In late 2022, financial services company Discover introduced “Online Privacy Protection,” a new tool that removes Discover customers’ personal data from 10 select people search websites. People search sites, also known as people finder sites and data brokers, are public-facing websites that coll…
October 3, 2022
For Cyber Security Awareness Month we’re offering some great tips on how to reboot your privacy online. Online Purchases Read More: Does Amazon Sell Your Personal Information? Email Safety More Tips to Keeping your Privacy Online: How to Avoid Phishing Scams Password Safety Social Media Mor…
June 27, 2022
Ever wondered how telemarketers get your phone number? Well, chances are, they found it online. Unfortunately, they’re not the only ones who can find it. In fact, it’s likely your phone number has been bought and sold at least once alongside much of your personal data. But the exposure of y…
May 23, 2022
Google’s new search removal policy makes it possible to remove more of your information from their search results. The April 2022 change of their search removal policy is a rare bit of good news for privacy advocates. Before this change, you could only ask Google to remove a very limited se…
May 3, 2022
We are very excited and proud to announce the brand new DeleteMe dashboard and user experience complete with some awesome new features that we’ve been working on for quite some time! Over the past few months, we’ve been redesigning the overall user experience of DeleteMe, and it’s now been releas…
April 22, 2022
Last week, we announced the release of our “What’s My Vote Worth” calculator, with which individuals can enter anonymous information about themselves – like party affiliation, age, ethnicity, and voting history – to get a projected estimate of how much was spent on political ads targe…
March 28, 2022
Have you just found that your personal information is available somewhere online you don’t want it to be? You’re not alone. Today an alarming amount of personal information can be found online of virtually any US citizen. Even if you’ve never willingly shared anything, other personal inform…
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